About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

● 1520 - After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. The strait would later be named after Magellan.

● 1582 - In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage license.

● 1660 - At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.

● 1729 - Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez.

● 1739 - English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'Follow after, but do not run before the blessed Spirit; if you do, although you may benefit others, and God may overrule everything for your own good, yet you will certainly destroy the peace of your own soul.'

● 1757 - English poet, painter and engraver William Blake was born. Two of his best known works are "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience."

● 1785 - The Treaty of Hopewell is signed

● 1795 - U.S. bought peace from Algiers and Tunis by paying $800,000, supplying a frigate, and paying an additional yearly tribute of $25,000.

● 1843 - Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day - The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.

● 1862 - American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General John Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.

● 1863 - Thanksgiving was first observed as a regular American holiday. Proclaimed by President Lincoln the previous month, it was declared that the event would be observed annually, on the fourth Thursday in November.

● 1868 - Birth of Maiju Lassila, Finland. Author, journalist, revolutionist whose colorful life created a legend around him. Arrested and was shot dead in 1918 while trying to escape imprisonment.

● 1910 - A protest strike called in Le Havre, France, over the death sentence given to French anarchist Jules Durand. The strike spread internationally to English and American docks, and further protests led to Durand's release three months later. In the interim, confined to a straitjacket for 40 days, Durand had become insane, and spent the rest of his life in an asylum; a reopening of the case in 1918 cleared his name.

● 1950 - A constitutional convention (comprised of 14 Protestant, Anglican, and Eastern Orthodox denominations) met in Cleveland, Ohio, and brought into being the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Today, the NCCC serves to administer disaster relief, strengthen family life, provide leadership training, and promote world peace.

● 1953 - New York City began 11 days without newspapers due to a strike of photoengravers.

● 1958 - Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.

● 1960 - Mauritania becomes independent of France.

● 1960 - Richard Wright dies in exile, in Paris. Postal worker, novelist and short-story writer, among the first American black writers to protest white treatment of blacks, notably in his novel "Native Son" (1940). First given opportunity to write through the Federal Writer's Project. In 1932 he joined the Communist Party and was executive secretary of the local John Reed Club of leftist writers and authors of Chicago. Moved to New York City; left the Communist Party in 1944 because of personal and political differences and settled in Paris, where he was invited by Gertrude Stein.

● 1963 - U.S. President Johnson announced that Cape Canaveral would be renamed Cape Kennedy in honor of his assassinated predecessor. The name was changed back to Cape Canaveral in 1973 by a vote of residents, disrespectful dummies that they were.

● 1964 - Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that US President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam.

● 1965 - Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam. His wife hopes to go shoe shopping in Vietnam very soon.

● 1967 - Racing is latest victim of foot-and-mouth; All horse racing in Britain is suspended indefinitely to help prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease.

● 1969 - The final episode of BBC soap-opera The Newcomers is broadcast.

● 1975 - As the World Turns and The Edge of Night, the final two American soap operas that had resisted going to pre-taped broadcasts, air their last live episodes.

● 1977 - Larry Bird was introduced as "College Basketball's Secret Weapon" with a cover story in Sports Illustrated. (NBA)

● 1978 - The Iranian government banned religious marches.

● 1979 - The Mount Erebus disaster: an Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board.

● 1979 - Billy Smith becomes the first goalie in NHL history to score a goal in a game.

● 1980 - Mark Morris, choreographer, puts on the Mark Morris Dance Group's first show at the Merce Cunningham Studios.

● 1982 - First meeting of Cat Lovers Against the Bomb, Lincoln, Nebraska.

● 1982 - Representatives from 88 countries gather in Geneva to discuss world trade and ways to work toward aspects of free trade.

● 1984 - Pope John Paul II completed the last of 133 homilies in St. Peter's Square on the theme, "Theology of the Body." It was the first time in public catechesis that a Pope made use of higher criticism of the Old Testament and freely cited a number of Protestant theologians.

● 1984 - Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made honorary citizens of the United States.

● 1992 - In Bosnia-Herzegovina, 137 tons of food and supplies were to be delivered to the isolated town of Srebrenica.

● 1992 - In King William's Town, South Africa, black militant gunmen attacked a country club killing four people and injuring 20.

● 1993 - Chicago's Shedd Aquarium captures three dolphins near Santa Catalina Island, California. A group of animal-rights activists led by the Malibu-based Whale Rescue Team had tried to prevent the capture, using an aircraft to track the boat.

● 1993 - The play "Mixed Emotions" closed after 48 performances.

● 1994 - Voters in Norway reject European Union membership. Norway for a second time rejected membership of the European Union in a referendum after a closely fought campaign.

● 1994 - In Portage, Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by a fellow inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institute gymnasium.

● 1997 - Kosovo Liberation Army, Albanian guerrilla group fighting for freedom of Kosovo, presents in front of the people of Kosovo.

● 1999 - Hsing-Hsing, a giant panda who arrived at the National Zoo in 1972 as a symbol of U.S.-China detente, was euthanized at age 28 because of his deteriorating health.

● 1999 - Nude swordsman attacks churchgoers; Eleven people are injured in a sword attack at a church in south London after a naked man wielding a Samurai sword bursts in during Sunday Mass.

● 2000 - George W. Bush's lawyers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to bring ''legal finality'' to the presidential election by ending any further ballot recounts; Al Gore's team countered that the nation's highest court should not interfere in Florida's recount dispute.

● 2000 - The eighth tar drop falls in the University of Queensland pitch drop experiment.

● 2001 - Enron Corp., once the world's largest energy trader, collapsed after would-be rescuer Dynegy Inc. backed out of an $8.4 billion deal to take it over.

● 2002 - 13 people are killed in a hotel bombing in Mombasa.

● 2004 - Male Po'o-uli dies of avian malaria in Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda before it could breed, making the species most in all probability extinct.

● 2005 - Eight-term Congressman Randy ''Duke'' Cunningham pleaded guilty to graft and tearfully resigned; the California Republican admitted he'd taken $2.4 million in bribes mostly from defense contractors in exchange for government business and other favors.

● 2005 - The Official Opposition (Conservative Party of Canada, New Democratic Party, and Bloc Québécois) bring down the 38th Minority Liberal Government of Canada in a vote of non-confidence forcing immediate campaigning for the 39th Federal Election.

BIRTHS

● 1489 - Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (d. 1541)

● 1570 - James Whitelocke, English judge (d. 1632)

● 1598 - Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (d. 1667)

● 1628 - John Bunyan, English cleric and author (d. 1688)

● 1632 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer (d. 1687)

● 1640 - Willem de Vlamingh, Flemish sea captain

● 1661 - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (d. 1723)

● Roman Catholic:● St. Pope Gregory III● St. Catherine Labour, virgin● St James of La Marcha (the Marches), confessor● St. Joseph Pignatelli, Spanish Jesuit● St. Andrew Trong● St. Valerian● St. Fionnchu● St. Hippolytus● St. James Thompson● St. Rufus and Companions● St. Papinianus

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 15 (Civil Date: November 28):● Beginning of the Nativity Fast● Fish, Wine and Oil Allowed, because of St Herman● Repose of St. Herman, Wonderworker of Alaska● Holy Martyrs and Confessors Gurias, Samonas and Abibus of Edessa● Martyrs Elpidius, Marcellus and Eustochius who suffered under Julian the Apostate.● Martyr Demetrius of Thrace.● St. Quinctian, Bishop of Seleucia.● St. Philip, abbot of Rabang (Vologda).● St. Paisius (Velichkovsky) of Moldavia and Mt. Athos.

● Greek Calendar:● St. Thomas the new, Patriarch of Constantinople.

● Moslem: Night of the Ascent (Rajab 27, 1418 AH)

● Bahá'í Faith: Holy Day - Ascension of `Abdu'l-Bahá

● Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii: Feast of the Holy Sovereigns, in honor of Kamehameha & Emma, the founders of the Anglican Church of Hawaii

● Albania - Albanian Independence day (from Turkey, 1912); also known as Albanian Flag Day due to other National events that correspond to this day

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